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Cards Term Culture Definition shared products of a human group or society. Term non-material culture Definition abstract and intangible human creations such as definitions of right and wrong and enviroment and way of doing things. Term material culture Definition a body of phusical objects that reflect nonmaterial cultural meanings. Term instincts Definition fixed, biologically inherited complez behavior patterns; instead of culture Term symbol Definition anything that a group of people have agreed upon as a way of meaningfully representing something other than itself. Term language Definition human speech in both its spoken and written forms. most important set of symbols Term value Definition an idea shared by the people in a society about what is good and bad, right and wrong, desirble and undesirble. Term norms Definition expectations of how people are supposed to act, think, or feel in specific situations (formal or informal). Term folkways Definition (social customs). Norms against behavior that have little strength and within broad limits may be broken. Term mores Definition Norms that are almost sacred and violations them will result in serious consequences Term laws Definition formal norms, usually mores, that have been enacted by the state to regulate human conduct Term sanctions Definition a process known as social control and that can be positive or negative. Term ideology Definition a set of cultural beliefs that legitimates or justifies the interests of a class, group, in its struggle with other groups for prestige and dominance Term cultural universals Definition cultures share many basic social structures and cultural meanings Term ethnocentrism Definition tendency to evaluate other cultures in terms of ones own and automatically evaluate one's culture as superior Term cultural relativity Definition one cant truly understand or evaluate cutural triats except in terms of the larger cultural and social system of which they are a part. Term subculture Definition group of people living with in a society that has a style of living not found in other groups... ex: surfing community Term counterculture Definition a subculture that directly challenges the values, beliefs, ideals, institutions, or other central aspects of the dominant cultures. Term cultural integration Definition cultural traits are logically consistent with one another.